Posted on 12/28/2004 1:29:43 PM PST by nuve9
QUEEN OF THE SEA: Sri Lanka officials say 1,000 tickets were sold for an excursion Sunday from the capital, Colombo, to beach resorts on the train known as "Samudradevi," or "Queen of the Sea." TRAGEDY STRIKES: The train was swept off the track by Sunday's tsunami. AFTERMATH: More than 800 people were killed; no relatives claimed 204 of the bodies, so they were buried in a mass grave along the railway line. "This was the only thing we could do," said Venerable Baddegama Samitha, a Buddhist monk and former parliamentarian. "The bodies were rotting. We gave them a decent burial."
$10 million
half of the package will be cash, the other half in the form of food, medicine and blankets for the survivors.
supplies will be delivered by the Saudi Red Crescent, and the cash will be funneled through the International Red Cross and other international aid groups.
well...in the category of "dark humor"..wanna start a thread to guess when some asshole lawyer files the first class-action suit?
A prayer for their families, that they may know peace...
Good thing I always sterilize my tea before I drink it.
Yep. Take chickens for instance. They generally live four to a teeny weeny cage, can't even turn around, mess themselves and the other three in their cage, (this is in commercial chicken farms) mess and urinate their water, lay eggs if they're egg chickens and then we eat those eggs that come out of the far end of the chickens, then when they wear out laying eggs they slaughter them (apparently by throwing them against walls in some instances if recent reports are to be believed) scald them, pluck them (all in sterile surroundings, of course) cut them up, package them and then we bring them home and cook and eat them. If we only knew where our food came from, we would never have a weight problem, I guess, because we wouldn't eat much. I'm drinking iced tea right now and can just taste the dirty feet taste of the tea stomper. Yum!
"If we only knew where our food came from, we would never have a weight problem, "
Most New Yorkers think milk comes from a carton. ;-)
Gallows humor, perhaps, but if we had seen a Sri Lankan website making jokes about 9/11 on 9/14, I doubt we would have been understanding. It doesn't seem appropriate.
Different circumstances when it was purposeful evil and when it was a natural occurrence.
It matters little whether the event is brought on by terrorists or an "act of God." Making jokes about a natural disaster that is behind the death of over 100,000 souls is over the top and simply inappropriate. No excuses or debate is necessary.
Thank you.
I couldn't agree more.
"No excuses or debate is necessary."
You are the one debating.
yawn
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